Tsering Yangzom Lama is a Tibetan writer based in
Vancouver,
British Columbia, whose debut novel We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies was published in 2022.[1]
She was born and raised in a Tibetan refugee community in Nepal before immigrating to Canada and then the United States.[2]
We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies, inspired in part by her own experiences, tells the story of a Tibetan family's journey into exile over the course of 50 years and three generations.[5] The novel was shortlisted for the 2022
Giller Prize,[6] and longlisted for both the
Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the inaugural
Carol Shields Prize for Fiction in 2023.[7] The novel was awarded the Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award for Fiction.[8]